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Sociopath: A person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience
I interpret that definition to mean that the person is incapable of having morals to begin with. I'm blanking on a name to use as an example but imagine a serial killer who uses some kind of lure to deceive. Normally that would be charm or good looks, in the monsters case it was words.
I disagree. He tried to involve himself in societies, but the people all rejected him. The only person that doesn't reject him is the old man who is blind. The monster is not a sociopath! He just wants what we all want-love, compassion and understanding!
Wanting love and compassion is one thing. But people who aren't loved don't just start murdering innocent children and women in cold blood. Killing to revenge that absence of love is not normal either.
People that are missing love normally turn to violence or sex to appease themselves, from my experience. Of course, The Monster could not have sex, so his only other outlet was violence.
I agree with Nicole, I think too many people get carried away with their emotions when reading the novel. The creature becomes intelligent enough to realise what he is doing is wrong, but nevertheless he continues on his killing streak. The book clearly outlines this, anyone capable of thinking is capable of doing good. Yes I empaphise for the creature but that doesn't mean that what doesn't I necessarily agree with his actions. There are many people living homeless, poor and rejected from their parents and mainstream society but they do not turn around and killing innocent children and people. It is completely morally and socially unacceptable. Nicole your a smart girl to be able to interpret the text the way you do. Theirs too many stimulus-responsive readers that can't apply simple logics in their readership which drives me insane arrrggghhhh!!!
third sentence...* yes I empaphise for the creature but that doesn't mean I necessarily agree with his actions.
Well no one would agree that murder is the best course of action. But I don't believe that you can correctly diagnose the creature as a sociopath. I just don't see it as a correct diagnosis, especially when the creature does make a few attempts to interact and be with people. He feels and understands emotions and even goes to far as to embrace and interact with people (illustrated by the blind man he spent time with). While reading, I didn't find him to be a cold hard manipulator who had mastered the imitation of emotions, which is something sociopaths are able to do without actually fully channeling the emotion itself. I think that the creature was in most cases, if not all, a murderer with severe psychological issues. However, he was not a sociopath.
being a murderer does not always make a person a sociopath.
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Sociopath: A person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscienceI interpret that definition to mean that the person is incapable of having morals to begin with. I'm blanking on a name to use as an example but imagine a serial killer who uses some kind of lure to deceive. Normally that would be charm or good looks, in the monsters case it was words.
I disagree. He tried to involve himself in societies, but the people all rejected him. The only person that doesn't reject him is the old man who is blind. The monster is not a sociopath! He just wants what we all want-love, compassion and understanding!
Wanting love and compassion is one thing. But people who aren't loved don't just start murdering innocent children and women in cold blood. Killing to revenge that absence of love is not normal either.
People that are missing love normally turn to violence or sex to appease themselves, from my experience. Of course, The Monster could not have sex, so his only other outlet was violence.
It is hard to apply human terms to something, the creature (or the monster as Shelley describes him)that is not necessarily human, but is AB human. We as human beings are not abhuman and therefore cannot comprehend any kind of metaphysical concept.
I agree with Nicole, I think too many people get carried away with their emotions when reading the novel. The creature becomes intelligent enough to realise what he is doing is wrong, but nevertheless he continues on his killing streak. The book clearly outlines this, anyone capable of thinking is capable of doing good. Yes I empaphise for the creature but that doesn't mean that what doesn't I necessarily agree with his actions. There are many people living homeless, poor and rejected from their parents and mainstream society but they do not turn around and killing innocent children and people. It is completely morally and socially unacceptable. Nicole your a smart girl to be able to interpret the text the way you do. Theirs too many stimulus-responsive readers that can't apply simple logics in their readership which drives me insane arrrggghhhh!!!
third sentence...* yes I empaphise for the creature but that doesn't mean I necessarily agree with his actions.
Well no one would agree that murder is the best course of action. But I don't believe that you can correctly diagnose the creature as a sociopath. I just don't see it as a correct diagnosis, especially when the creature does make a few attempts to interact and be with people. He feels and understands emotions and even goes to far as to embrace and interact with people (illustrated by the blind man he spent time with). While reading, I didn't find him to be a cold hard manipulator who had mastered the imitation of emotions, which is something sociopaths are able to do without actually fully channeling the emotion itself. I think that the creature was in most cases, if not all, a murderer with severe psychological issues. However, he was not a sociopath.
being a murderer does not always make a person a sociopath.
One commonly thought to refuse human morals and ethics, but what if they just take them too much to heart?
That’s what Frankenstein’s creation does, he follows human values as they are taught to him.